Pinochet's daughter seeks office in Chile

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Reuters

Pinochet's daughter seeks office in Chile
Jul 28, 2008 06:55 PM

SANTIAGO, (Reuters)–The eldest daughter of late Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet signed up Monday to run in municipal elections in an upscale neighbourhood of the capital later this year, an election service official said.

Lucia Pinochet Hiriart will run as an independent in the elections for local councils. While city councils in Chile have limited power, the polls in October will be a barometer of the political climate ahead of a presidential election in 2009.

"She signed up this morning," the election official said. "She is running for the post of councillor of Vitacura."

Vitacura is one of the most luxurious neighbourhoods of Santiago, home to designer boutiques and many of Chile's right-wing elite.

Hiriart, her siblings and mother were detained in 2007 and held in jail for two nights amid a probe into allegations they helped Pinochet store millions of dollars of public funds embezzled during his 1973-1990 regime.


Read more: http://www.thestar.com/News/World/article/468801

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Lucia Pinochet Hiriart



The widow of Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, Lucia Hiriart (R), attends a
commemorative mass as her granddaughter yawns at the military church in Santiago
December 10, 2007. December 10 marks the first anniversary of the Pinochet's death
after suffering a heart attack at the military hospital in Santiago. Pinochet ruled
Chile from 1973-1990 and spent his old age fighting human rights, fraud and
corruption charges. REUTERS/Ivan Alvarado (CHILE)



Mother, Lucia, and father, the dictator, front row, center





http://g1.globo.com/Noticias/Mundo/foto/0,,6598119,00.jpg

Mourners at casket of dead dictator Augusto Pinochet



Photos located by DU'er Say_What of Pinochet son, Augusto Pinochet Hiriart

[a la izquierda]

1. Hopefully Chileans don't have...

such short memories. Don't know this woman's politics, but her name alone has the blood of tens of thousands all over it. That entire family sickens me.

[heliarc]

3. Unfortunately

there are a good 30-40 percent of Chileans who still think that the coup saved the country...

Fascism is alive and well.

[Judi Lynn]

5. It's so damned sad they are so wildly stupid! If they only would take the time to ask questions, and

to start reading they'd learn Richard M. Nixon made destroying Allende's economy his priority when he told CIA director, Richard Helms in 1970, he wanted to "make the economy scream."

They poured multiple millions of dollars into the Chilean newspaper, "El Mercurio," so they could use it, and the owner's radio stations, magazines, etc. to flood the public with news of how horrible Allende was, how his policies would destroy Chile, then they started paying off people to throw huge strikes, like the truckers, emptying all the stores of food and merchandize, resulting in ships being parked in rows and rows in the harbor waiting to unload products, food riots ensued, people were desperate, needing almost anything you'd ordinarily buy in a store, including parts for cars, building materials, etc., then they started buying the top military officials, and constructing the coup against Allende.

These idiot Chileans to whom you referred are profoundly ignorant to have never seen through this, to have never even paid attention to people when there were discussing it over and over and over again, through the years. They are simply, wildly stupid. Maybe it's their guilt over all the torture and murders and massacres that has given them mental blocks and lapses.

They share in the blame for the hell which was brought to their country for years due to meddling from the U.S., and the corruption and villainy of the most corrupt Chilean military officers, newspaper owners, journalists, and union officials who helped them bring the nation to its knees.

[AlphaCentauri]

8. The so called "Free Press" with advertisement still the favorite tool for propaganda

that's what we get today spam news paid as advertisement

[heliarc]

2. Harpy.

Pure evil.

[AnnieBW]

4. Daddy's Little Girl

Following in her daddy's jackboot-steps.

[provis99]

6. Isn't that cute? They're giving Nazi salutes at Pinochet's coffin!

Must be his kinfolk, or just rabid followers. Also, what's up with Captain America at the coffin? Is America now the standard of evil for right wing fascist Pinochet lovers?

[Judi Lynn]

7. Those Nazi salutes are unbelievable, aren't they? Good grief!

Here's another angle on the completely unexpected image of a Captain America:


God bless their fallen hero. He saved them from a couple of generations of leftists, apparently, since they killed all the leftists they could find, and the ones who may have been left simply went underground, not all so willing to be tortured to death, themselves.

[AlphaCentauri]

9. priceless picture n/t

[Blue_Tires]

15. ok, that assclown needs to die in a fire....

[heliarc]

18. There was a report of someone spitting on the coffin...

and being dragged away. I wondered if there were pictures of that. Anybody seen any?

[Judi Lynn]

19. Well, you've done us a favor. This is excellent! I looked it up. Thank God one man got something off

his chest, and made a point about justice which was denied when the old monster died without standing trial:

Polarization accompanied the caudillo’s funeral. In the style of a Jorge Luis Borges character, Pinochet was both traitor and hero. His cadaver was spit upon by the grandson of Carlos Prat, a former military commander murdered in Argentina on Pinochet’s orders.

More:
http://www.drclas.harvard.edu/revista/articles/view/913

Also:

Prats received widespread attention after he waited in line 12 hours to see Pinochet's body lying in state, only to spit on the casket. His grandfather, Gen. Carlos Prats, had been loyal to overthrown President Salvador Allende and was blown up, along with his wife, in a 1974 car bomb attack in Buenos Aires organized by Pinochet's secret police force.

More:
http://www.worldpress.org/Americas/2657.cfm



Son of murdered General Prats, Francisco Cuadrado Prats

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the mudered General Carlos Prats, and President Salvador Allende



his car



What had been General Carlos Prat,prior to Pinochet's bomb.
Not so hard to see why his son spat on Pinochet's casket!

[Doctor_J]

10. We let the offspring of a blood-thirsty right-wing elitist take office here - it went great!

Hopefully the people of chile will not let this happen.

[readmoreoften]

11. Oh daddy it was so thrilling when you threw all those nasty subversives out of airplanes.

You could see them wiggle like ants in the sky as they fell! Oh the joys of my childhood! I love you daddy! I shall follow in your footsteps!

[LeftishBrit]

12. Hope she doesn't get anywhere - unless she's totally repudiated him

What a sickeningly evil man.

[a la izquierda]

13. There is a great movie about this period

called "Machuca". It looks at Chile through the eyes of three kids-it's not a documentary, but it's an incredibly disturbing portrait of the era, the violence and the chaos. The movie is difficult to find, though, but it's out there.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

14. Where's Pavulon?

And what's this weird wakka-wakka-wakka sound I hear?

[David__77]

16. I do not believe this should be allowed.

These people - these fascists coupmongers - should be deprived of their political rights. They should be held up to scorn and ridicule and driven from public life absolutely, completely, and irrevocably.

[Judi Lynn]

17. In addition to the horror of the atrocities pressed upon political prisoners,

Pinochet absolutely stole Chile blind, following the pattern of all true right-wingers. There was a scandal of sorts which DID finally get discussed by our corporate media, who apparently couldn't avoid covering it, finally, and this involved the entire Pinochet family in tax evasion and money laundering, etc.:

December 12, 2004
The Pinochet Money Trail
By TIMOTHY L. O'BRIEN and LARRY ROHTER

Santiago, Chile

GEN. MANUEL CONTRERAS is a religious man. A bas-relief of the Last Supper hangs on his dining room wall, not far from a thick, leather-bound Bible that rests on a table. As the former head of Gen. Augusto Pinochet's secret police in Chile, General Contreras is also a controversial man. A large silver plate, given to him by Argentina's intelligence services, sits on a shelf, a few feet from the Bible.

The inscription on the plate reads June 1976, the same month and year that General Contreras and other South American intelligence chiefs, according to declassified United States intelligence documents, authorized assassinations of exiled political dissidents in a wide-ranging conspiracy known as Operation Condor. Although General Contreras denied the existence of such a plan in a recent interview in his hillside home here, the plot has been amply documented in the United States intelligence records.

General Contreras's past banking activities have been documented, too. According to a declassified 1979 State Department memo, he opened a "secret bank account" at Riggs Bank in Washington in 1966, when he was a young soldier based in the United States. The State Department report noted that General Contreras's balance at Riggs was as high as $26,000 in the mid-1970's. In the interview, he said he was sure he never kept more than $1,000 at Riggs and that it was common for members of the Chilean army who were based in the United States to have personal accounts at the bank.

But General Contreras was less certain about funds Riggs held for his former boss, General Pinochet, whose accounts are among those at the center of a sweeping money-laundering investigation of the bank. The sums involved - as much as $8 million, according to an assessment by the United States Senate - have left even General Pinochet's staunchest allies wondering about their origin.

~snip~
Whatever the challenges of the past, the scandal has given fresh impetus to those seeking a full accounting of the financial underbelly of the Pinochet era. Even the general's closest family members are not off limits, something that was unthinkable just a few years ago.

Some members of the Chilean Congress are calling for an investigation into two charitable groups, the Center for Mothers and the September Foundation. General Pinochet's wife, Lucia Hiriart, has headed both organizations. She also figures prominently in the investigation of possible money laundering at Riggs and is a Pinochet Foundation board member. Other members of Congress are demanding inquiries as to whether one of the general's daughters, also named Lucia, pressured the state insurance agency to steer contracts to companies associated with her and then diverted profits from those deals into an offshore account.

Another unresolved financial controversy involving the Pinochet family is known as the "Pinochecks scandal." In the last phase of the dictatorship, General Pinochet authorized government payments totaling more than $3 million to another son, Augusto Jr., to buy him out of a failing arms company - sparing the son from large financial losses.

But when the civilian government that later came to power ordered a full investigation of the deal, military troops swarmed the streets and threatened a rebellion. Eventually, the inquiry was shelved and no action was taken against Augusto Jr.

Augusto Jr., who at one time trademarked his father's name for use on branded credit cards and wines called "Captain General" and "Don Augusto," was recently convicted of fraud in a case involving stolen cars.

For General Pinochet himself, the days when his name might have graced a fine bottle of wine have passed. Instead, his name is now more closely associated with a once prominent United States bank: Riggs.

More:
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/12/business/yourmoney/12riggs.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print&position=&oref=slogin

[UTUSN]

20. Some people just won't go away. n/t